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JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:27 pm

And great drama as Caruana beats MVL in what looked like an unwinnable Rook and g-pawn v knight and f-pawn ending.

That prep probably took most of the year break to polish up

It could have been the lichess equivalent of being detected taking a phone to the Cafe. What could that equivalent be? I did ask at the time but didn't get an answer. I know they don't discuss specific cases but I was looking for a general idea why that might happen. It was after about 5 generic Lo...

Over the last year, one has become aware of players whose results in competitions have been cancelled, but are nevertheless still allowed to play. A while back I was playing in the twitter chess event on Lichess. This was run by Matt Fletcher and others. During one of my games after a few moves the...

Yes, I understand your argument it just seems super unlikely in this case. What would be the point in continuing when the account had been reported multiple times? Also, the example you give of subtle cheating is very different to what’s going on here. It’s hard to imagine how Fred could be more bla...

I do think it would be very interesting to know what the lichess 'take' on Mr. Fred is; I feel it is impossible that there haven't been humans looking at him, given the number of reports that would have come in on this person. One of the things Mr LiChess said on Perpetual Chess was the number of r...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:15 am

... I don't think we'd know if anybody had been caught if they weren't banned.

exactly.

... , our only criteria are going to be who gets caught and who doesn't .... That's not quite accurate. Our criteria is going to be who gets banned and who doesn't. Have Lichess really not had a look at Freddy and seen what he's up to? I doubt it. Much more likely is that they know (he's been 'caug...

Matthew Turner wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:37 am

Human observation of the games offers no credible explanation for the player's play.

But there is a credible explanation - he's deliberately losing.

My friend Angus - frequent visitor here - points out an example when somebody did get banned for a number of Scholars mate games ... although in this case he was winning against his 5 year old brother who didn't know any better. https://twitter.com/angusjfrench/status/1383744413365534734 So it seems...

On twitter this morning Christof Sielecki reports an 'anti-Freddy' - somebody winning dozens of games in a row by scholars mate. These games spread over days ... and then 5 more after he tweeted this >> https://twitter.com/ChessExplained/status/1383681865471594499 About the experience he says, "Yea...

If anybody was wondering if Freddy is still plagued by mouse slips ... he is. No doubt 2 Bc4 was the intended move. [Event "Rated Blitz game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/o6igh9Cj"] [Date "2021.04.17"] [White "freddy1963"] [Black "jmonar"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2021.04.17"] [UTCTime "19:27:09"] [W...

I make my share of mouseslips and I make plenty of one move blunders which are not mouseslips. I doubt whether the difference would be apparent even with photographic evidence. It has recently been suggested that Qxd7 was a mouse slip when in fact the person concerned meant to play Qd4. If it's pos...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:28 pm

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 11, 2021 4:09 pm

If Roddy McDowall isn't in it, I'm not watching it.

For clarity, I would watch any chess themed movie with Roddy McDowall in it. Or any ape themed movie with Roddy mcDowall in it. Or any movie at all in which apes play chess.

2001 has apes and chess. But not both together.

"I don't know why he spent over two minutes on move 3 in a five minute game, perhaps he had to answer the door, the internet went down or the dog started barking." I can confirm all of the above have made me spend weird time on a move, so you can't take that in isolation. .... Oh for sure. I've had...

Here's my game with him. Perfect theory - albeit after very curious thinking time on move 2 and 3 - then ... Well what would you call it? A lot of mouse slips? [Event "Rated Blitz game"] [Site "https://lichess.org/jOEb5a7E"] [Date "2021.04.05"] [White "freddy1963"] [Black "jthechessb"] [Result "0-1"...